The executive committee of the Delhi high court Bar Association (DHCBA) has formed a grievance committee to deal with complaints relating to corruption and misconduct in the judicial system. For this, a box has been kept at the DHCBA office to enable lawyers to drop their complaints. DHCBA president...

Cricket fans across the country will continue to be able to watch all India-centric matches of the ongoing World Cup - as also the semifinals and final — on public broadcaster Doordarshan, the Supreme Court said Friday. The Supreme Court stayed Delhi high court’s order restraining Doordarshan from c...

The Delhi high court yesterday issued notice to the central government on a plea by advocate Prashant Bhushan challenging the government’s refusal to reissue him a passport with full validity of 10 years as criminal cases are pending against him. Justice Rajiv Shakdher sought a response from the min...

The Supreme Court Friday directed the Centre to take steps for the expeditious appointment of the chairman and members of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), lying vacant since last October.The apex court’s social justice bench comprising Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice...

The Delhi High Court Monday exempted former Delhi University vice chancellor Deepak Pental from personal appearance in trial court Feb 28 in a plagiarism case filed against him by P. Pardha Saradhi. Justice Sunil Gaur granted the exemption, taking into consideration the application filed by Pental t...

The Delhi high court has lifted its order restraining publication of reports on the alleged harassment complaint joint winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, Rajendra K Pachauri.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will remove the table tennis table from the CK Daphtary chambers block, because it has been disturbing those trying to have conferences with clients in the building. The SCBA will now look for an “appropriate place for installation of Table Tennis Table, alon...

The Supreme Court Thursday restrained the Gujarat Police from arresting activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand in connection with the alleged misuse of funds collected by NGO Sabrang Trust for setting up a museum at Gulbarga Society which witnessed one of the worst carnage during 2002 ...

The Delhi high court yesterday called the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) the “Delhi Destruct Authority” while saying that the land-owning agency and other departments are not concerned about Delhi. “You all are not concerned about Delhi. All of you should be renamed. DDA should be renamed Delhi D...

The Delhi high court today termed “inappropriate” the central government’s decision to prevent Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai from leaving India because she would project a negative image of the country at the international level. Justice Rajiv Shakdher said that there can be differences of opinio...

Saurav Datta presents the case against Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand, as well as their defence, and looks into the case law and arguments that’ll lie before the Supreme Court tomorrow.

The nuisance of stray pigs in Gurgaon city is likely to be controlled with the authorities banning them. “Roaming of pigs will be completely banned in the areas falling under Municipal Corporation Gurgaon from Feb 22, 2015,” a state government spokesman said here Wednesday. “Thereafter, stray pigs w...

The Supreme Court Wednesday said it was for elected representatives to take a call at what stage of proceedings a person facing criminal charges should be barred from contesting elections and the courts could not issue directions to the legislature and intrude in its domain. A bench of Chief Justice...

Lawyers in Ghaziabad did not attend courts today in response to a call by the lawyers’ action committee for a boycott in the light of their years-old objection to transferring of cases from Agra to Etawah. The Ghaziabad Bar Association president Ram Autar Gupta said that after the transfer of cases ...

The Delhi high court Wednesday refused to entertain a PIL seeking directions to the government to keep cases of live-in relationships out of the purview of rape under the Indian Penal Code. The PIL also sought direction with regard to the issue of police arresting a person only on the basis of an al...

The central government Wednesday told the Delhi high court that the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) foreign funds were investigated and nothing was found in violation of the law. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw also asked the ministry of home affairs to submit its revised o...

“Does this case fall in the 93 per cent or in the remaining 7 per cent?” Supreme Court Justice Ranjan Gogoi has begun asking the bar increasingly often, reported Utkarsh Anand in the Indian Express . While Kapil Sibal reportedly did not get the reference, Gogoi was referring to recent research by ad...

Cricket fans across the country will continue to view the World Cup matches involving India on public broadcaster Doordarshan’s national channel as the Supreme Court Tuesday extended its interim order for telecast of the matches on the channel. The court also asked Prasar Bharati to respond to Star ...

Delhi court staff crib about government-run dispensaries that stock little else but Paracetamol in this time of mucus and mouth-breathing, coupled with apathetic doctors.

Rape-accused Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav Monday moved an application in a Delhi court seeking to recall some prosecution witnesses in the case for further cross examination. Yadav’s defence counsel Dharmender Mishra told Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja that the lawyer who was previously...